Something Dark Dwells There

Something Dark Dwells There
Princess Lemon

Disclaimer:
Lord of the Flies and all related characters don't belong to me. They are properly own by William Golding (god rest his weary soul)

Angela Angel is a character that I've borrowed from AJ Angelique from her Thundercats fanfics.

The creature is of my own creation so don't come to me talking about lawsuits unless you want to thrwn into a pool full of mud because all your getting from me is raspberries :*

With that said and done! Let the show begin!!!

San...3
Ni....2
Ichi..1

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6) 2nd Blood

Angela strolled through the woods as lesurally as she could but her steps were faster than she prefered them to be. There was a lot of things on my mind at the moment. The upmost thig was trying to figure out the riddle that medicine man had given him, about how three people had to die so as the creature would lose its power...but they couldn't die by the creature's hands and the medicine man said that she wouldn't have to kill anyone. The man had mentioned that the first one had died over the cliff on the first day, the little 'un with the scar. Yet Angela as puzzled how two more were to die. She was taking very good care of the boys and wanted them all to leave the island. So probably fate would intervene and snatch the other two when she let her guard down or something.

Then there was the matter of keeping things runing smoothly on the island. Jack and his hunters had let the fire go out once before and go scolded for it by Ralph. Also all the rules Ralph had set up were slowly being ignored, like getting water from a stream or fall deeper in the island and using a nearby tilde pool for a lavratory.

Angela had sat in on the evening meeting Ralph had called and the choas that had resulted gave her a headache. Once more she had to reassure the boys that the creature was as well contained "As the Crown Jewels in Buckingham Palace". Then came the matter of putting the little 'uns night fears to rest and it was discovered that Simon often left the camp at night to go to a sceret place in the woods, which of course was the nature place to sleep with Angela (whom by this time have claimed each other as brother and sister). Then another boy was brought up who claimed that beasts were coming from the sea, which surprised even Angela. Then the arguing changed from that to the possiblity of the boys going crazy to the possibility of ghosts. It was at the peak of the heated argument that Angela shouted over everyone and it got really quiet before she set things straight about there not being any ghosts on the island and the only thing coming out of the water was wreckage from the crash that's been reclaimed by the sea in the morning.

Yet Angela had lied to protect the boys.

There were ghosts on the island...spirits of all those who were killed by the creature. Doomed to wander the island till the day he was defeated. On top of that, Angela feared that her wards that were containg the creature were beinging to fail. She could cast a freash set of wards around the old ones, but would mean taking down the olds ones in order for the new ones to work, and then the creature would escape and have himself a feast on the boys.

Also...it wasn't just wreckage that came out of the sea, they were the dead bodies of others whom died in the crash. Some had been buried in the coast line but others she quickly creamted using a fire charm and their ashes would be carried away by the wind to the other islands. It was during these times that Angela was puzzled. If omhad died in the crash, how come she couldn't defeat the creature now? Why did three more have to die?

Angela began to ponder this once more as she roamed the island in the early morning hours after Ralph's 'serious meeting'. Angela had woken an hour before dawn, her dreams plagued by nightmares of the creature breaking losse and going after the boys. She woke with a start at the most terrifying part of the nightmare to see Simon facing her, sleeping peacfully with a soft smile on his face. Angela let out a small breath of releif before she gently kissed him on the brow and quietly left to talk a walk and clear her head, for obviously she wasn't going to be able to get back to sleep any time soon.

By now, the sun had peaked over the horizon and gave everything a warm innocent glow, as if there was nothing wrong on the island and all that she had been through was just apart of the nightmare...but this was soon proven wrong when the twins Sam N Eric sped across her path with the most terrified looks on their faces. Concerned, she followed them back to the beach where they attempted to wake Ralph but succeded in gettig Piggy up.

"What's wrong?" Angela asked, poking her head in through the hut's doorway as the twins tried to stop Piggy from leaving the hut.

"The beast..." Sam said.
"We saw it..." Eric said.
"What are they going on about now?" Jack asked with a yawn as Angela blinked in surprise.
"Excuse me?" Angela asked.
"We saw the beast," both boys said and began to describe it as Angela listened intently.
"You saw 'that' in the woods?" Angela asked when they were done and the twins nodded.
"Well?" Piggy asked with Ralph standing beside him, now fully awake.
"This is something new to me, I'm going to go investiagte it...you said it was up on the mountainr thr the fire, right?" Angela asked the twins and they both nodded.

"Woah, you're not going up there alone are you?" Ralph asked.
"Why not?" Angela asked.
"That thing could sneak up on you and jump you or something," Ralph said.
"So what do you suggest, that you go up there with me?" Angela asked sarcastically...

...Moments later, Angela was climbing up the side of the moutain with Ralph, Jack, Simon and some of the Hunters.

"I can't believe you let me talk me allowing you all to come," Angela muttered under her breath to Ralph and Jack, who walked on either side of her and two steps behind her.

"Well, what Ralph says goes," Jack said, one of the few times that he was following what Ralph said. After a slight arguement, Angela agreed to let Ralph, Jack and a few other boys go up to the mountain with her. While the others were aprehensive and Jack could feel what he thought to be excitment rising in him, Angela was humiliated that a group of boys were escorting her into what could be a dangerous situation...oh what a morning this had turned out to be.

Before long, the small group made it up the mountain and over to where what looked to be a heap of a body sat in waiting or them. Angela gave the boys a silent signal and they flanked her sides as they stood ready with their wooden spears while Angela carefully approcahed the "sleeping" figure.

She crept up to the creature and looked it over carefully before she waved a hand in front of its face.

"What are you doing?" Jack demaned and everyone sushed him instanly. Angela rolled her eyes as she prodded the figure with a stick five times in five different places before she walked up and lifted its head a bit.

"It's alright, its dead," she called out and the boys began to relax a bit.
"But what is it?" Simon called out.
"Looks to be a piolet...probably been dead for only a day," Angela called back as she fumbled with the helmet as she attempted to take it off. Unbenost to her, Jack and two of the other boys began to creep in for a better look as she did so. With one hard tug, the helmet came off to reveal a ruined face. Angela gave off a shout of surprise and quickly hid the piolet's face with the open part of his helmet.

"What is it?" Ralph asked, puzzeled.
"We need to bury this man," was Angela's only reply.
"Why? Won't the creture just get him?" Jack asked.
"One, the creature is contained. Two, it doesn't like to dig for its food," Angela said over her shoulder. Just as she was begining to formulate a plan of burial, a strong gust of wind blew and Angela was surpirsed by the fact that the piolet was still attached to his parachute. The wind quickly filled the parachute and jarked the dead piolet away from Angela, thus revealing the ruined face to the boys.

As the boys shouted in surprise and panick, Angela bolted forward to tackle the dead body but the wind was too fast and Angela fell face first on the ground as the body flew away to one of the other islands as the boys retreated back down to the beach and Angela watched the piolet being blown away.

'It seems even the dead don't want to be any more,' Angela thought before she picked herself up and walked back down the side of the mountain.

* * *

By the time Angela returned to the beach, Jack was storming into the woods and walked right past her without batting an eyelash. When she inquired what had happened, Piggy told her of the meeting Jack had called only to end up breaking away from the tribe and that he invited others to join him.

"I see," Angela said, looking off in the direction Jack had left with a look of worry and concern on her face.

"What's wrong?" Simon asked and snapped her out of her trance.
"I fear something dark has a hold of him," Angela simply said as plans were made about the fire and some of the Big 'uns that were loyal to Jack slowly crept away when they thought no one was looking...but Angela noticed...

Eleswh Jac Jack and his crew have gathered at castle rock where they setteled into a cavern on the other side and away from the creture and they made plans to steal some fire and hunt down a pig for a feast. So some boys went after the fire while the rest went on the hunt.

Oh what a hunt it was, the boys worked together to bring down a single sow and in the roar of the moment she was dead. As the boys looked on at their kill in a state of pride, Jack ordered for a stick to be sharpen on both ends and the head of the sow to be cut off.

"Why Jack?" one boy asked and Jack turned towards the voice only to find questioning faces while Roger sharpened the stick.

"Because, if there is a beast on this island, then it must belong to the creature. If we feed it, then it will leave us alone. Just like winning the trust of a dog back home," Jack said as he took the freashly cut stick, drove it into the ground and stuck the head on top. Jack took a step back ad the boys stared at it in reverance for a moment before they ran off with their kill to the beach...

TBC

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